County track meet features defending state champ

Tuesday

The owner of the state’s top reported times in two events this season will be among those on display at the Gaston County Track and Field Championships Wednesday at Bessemer City.

Cherryville junior Trent Friday is seeded first in the 100 and 200 meters and has clocked the state’s fastest reported times regardless of classification in both events: 10.64 seconds in the 100 and 21.54 seconds in the 200. Friday ran both times at Bessemer City earlier this season.

Friday is the defending 1A state champion in the 400 meters, having set a 1A state meet record with a time of 48.12 seconds. Friday is also seeded third in the 400 meters for Wednesday’s meet.

The meet already held the pole vault event Monday at South Point. Forestview’s Ricky Isrel took first place in the boys competition with a jump of 10 feet while North Gaston’s Mariel Finger won the girls at 9 feet, 6 inches.

The field events are scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m., followed by the running preliminaries at 2 and the running finals at 3.

The South Point boys and Forestview girls are the defending team champions.

Phillip Gardner: 704-869-1843; twitter.com/gazettephil

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